Comic Book Punks: How a Generation of Brits Reinvented Pop Culture - Karl Stock

Category: History
Language: English
Keywords: Music

Written by Karl Stock
Read by Liam Gerrard
Format: M4B
Bitrate: 64 Kbps

The influence of the comic book has never been greater, from movies to streaming and beyond, but the journey comics took from disposable kids’ magazines to literary prize-winning books and global franchises turned on a highly unusual group of writers and artists. Few would have expected a small gathering of British comic book fans and creators in the early ’70s to spark a cultural revolution, but this was the start of a disparate movement of punks, dropouts and disaffected youths who reinvented a medium and became the imaginative heart of a global success story.